ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,467, issued on July 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Complementary current-steering digital-to-analog converter" was invented by Chih-Hou Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Yuan Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Yu Ko (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shu-Lin Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A complementary current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) including a p-type DAC as well as an n-type DAC is shown. The p-type DAC has p-type current sources, and the n-type DAC has n-type current sources. The p-type and n-type current sources are coupled to a first input terminal or a second input terminal of a transi...